Finalists for dean of engineering and applied science to visit Western Michigan University

KALAMAZOO, MI – Over the next two weeks, Western Michigan University will be bringing five finalists for the position of dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences to campus, the university announced Monday.

Five finalists for the position of dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be visiting WMU between April 3 and 10.Yvonne Zipp | MLive/Kalamazoo Gazette

The former dean, Anthony Vizzini, left WMU last year to
become provost and vice president for academic affairs at Wichita State University in Kansas.

Below are the candidates and date and time of their
public presentation. All presentations will be held in the Parkview Room of the
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences building.

• April 3, 9 to 10 a.m.: Lizette Chevalier, associate dean for undergraduate
education and outreach at the University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale's
College of Engineering

•April 3, 2:15 to 3:15 p.m.: Martha Mitchell,
associate dean for research at New Mexico State University's College of
Engineering.

• April 4, 2:15 to 3:15 p.m.: Charles Fleddermann, associate dean for academic affairs
and the Gardner-Zemke Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of
New Mexico's School of Engineering.

•April 8, 2:15 to 3:15 p.m.: Jenna
Carpenter, associate dean for undergraduate studies and the Wayne and Juanita Spinks
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Louisiana Tech University's College
of Engineering and Science

•April 10, 2:15 to 3:15 p.m.: Cerry Klein,
office of the Provost, professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering
and the Lapierre Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of
Missouri.